Hostage to Pleasure
core novel 2008 Psy-Changeling
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (34,315 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425223253 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
A powerful Psy woman is coerced into designing a neural implant that would control the psychically gifted people of her own race. The price of refusing is her son's safety, so she has little room to move. She finds an unexpected ally in a sniper from the DarkRiver pack who lost his sister to a Psy killer and has every reason to distrust her kind. Each is forced to look at the other in a new way as they try to stop the project and protect the people they care about, while the Psy leadership watches and the stakes for both races rise.
Where it sits
- Universe: Psy-Changeling
- Series: Psy-Changeling core; position 5 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nalini Singh
Notes
- From the series record (Psy-Changeling): Fifteen novels, each following a different couple, about the Psy, the changelings and the end of Silence.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Psy-Changeling: position 5 of 15: previous Mine to Possess (2008) · next Branded by Fire (2009)
- Internal chronology, within Psy-Changeling: position 9 of 24: previous Alpha Night (2020) · next Last Guard (2021)
Sources
← Psy-Changeling dossier · All universes
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